Some of President Trump’s best friends in Congress sharply criticized his first budget Thursday, with defense hawks saying the proposed hike in Pentagon spending wasn’t big enough, while rural conservatives and others attacked plans to cut a wide range …

(CNN) During a campaign rally a little less than a year before he entered the White House, Donald Trump boasted that his supporters’ loyalty was such that he “could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody” with political impunity.

In blocking the administration’s second attempt at a travel ban from terror-prone countries, a federal judge in Hawaii laid the blame squarely on President Trump and his advisers, who had suggested the policy was aimed at barring Muslims.

President Trump’s first budget blueprint is calling for the elimination of federal funding to a host of arts and humanities programs, as the new administration seeks to redirect taxpayer dollars to defense.

(CNN) The Florida state attorney expected to prosecute the murder trial of Markeith Loyd was removed from the case by Gov. Rick Scott on Thursday afternoon after refusing to seek the death penalty in the case.

Some liberals wary of Judge Neil Gorsuch’s fitness for the Supreme Court point to the Case of the Frozen Trucker. As an appeals court judge, Gorsuch ruled against a driver who claimed he’d been wrongly fired because he ignored his supervisor’s demands …

March 16, 2017: The search continues for a teenager missing out of Middle Tennessee. A former Knoxville police chief, who used to be program director for the national AMBER Alert system, discusses the case.

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The chief justice of California’s Supreme Court accused federal immigration authorities of “stalking” local courthouses on Thursday, joined a growing chorus of officials objecting to immigration detentions at courthouses.

Catrina Burks caught the first flight to Los Angeles on Thursday. She’d left her Michigan home in a rush the evening before and driven to the airport in Chicago after getting a call from her father’s attorney.

Rep. Steve King says he doesn’t expect to face repercussions from his Republican colleagues for his controversial declaration last weekend that “we can’t restore our civilization with somebody else’s babies.

Chelsea Clinton, the daughter of former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and former President Bill Clinton, will release a children’s picture book on inspirational American women titled “She Persisted.